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Deaves
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I’m really just here to pick up my car. Used to be on twitter.
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As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this
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ah must admit, this is certainly an intriguin’ case, mistuh … was it “louvre”
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to

That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
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A lot that could be said about this but if you look on Twitter it’s noticeable that the replies and quote tweets are *overwhelmingly* telling him he shouldn’t have apologised and even attacking him for doing so. That’s the feedback loop certain users are plugged into now, and it has consequences.
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this is obviously appalling - and he should lose his job - but it's also really quite shocking; I first met Calgie when he was a baby reporter in his early twenties and sure, he was always a Tory, but he was....fine and normal? right-wing radicalisation is out of control in SW1
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
I only learnt the other week that my parents ditched their landline ages ago - the only number I know. They were surprised by my reaction that they’d never told me “what if I lost my phone in an accident or crime! Who would I call!!”
Also pleasantly reminded earlier that LBJ’s beagles in the White House were called “Him” and “Her”. Related, a picture of LBJ showing a child a basket full of Him’s puppies 🐶
Best state dinner ever? In an old gymnasium in a Texan village for the German state visit, December 1963
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It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable
Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
The fact that the Pentagon had journalists on-site is one of those American things which is just bonkers from the outside
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | WKRG.com
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American milit…
www.wkrg.com
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"Blair, Kennedy, Kennedy, Clegg, Miliband, Corbyn, Berry, Davey/Denyer" is a voter we can all picture a very exasperating conversation with
My take is that "well meaning middle class lefty who hasn't thought about it all that hard but is against Bad Things" is a very well worn British intellectual tradition. They joined Charter 88, supported Charles Kennedy, Agreed with Nick...

Not a bad thing necessarily but definitely a Type of Guy!
They didn’t even do it!
Leaving Schengen today on the first day of the new EU biometric ID border control thing and, you guessed it, the pre-registration app doesn’t work. Classic Brussels!
And some of the characters were lawyers in California. Much shouting at the tv occurred
Watching the last episode of Platonic and it centres around Will getting a non-compete. My husband “this is actually really annoying me because non-competes are illegal in the state of California. This whole plot device is wrong!!”
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Things are moving very fast in Madagascar. An army unit that was behind the 2009 coup has called on other members of the security forces to "join forces" and "refuse orders to shoot" at protesters.

Several thousand are on the streets of Antananarivo today, according to AFP reporters there
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Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech
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This is Mark. He was only seven years old when a russian projectile hit his family’s home in Zaporizhzhia, killing him.
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It’s Wales, it’s a friendly but wow, Saka is just 🤩
Saka's goal for England
Making it look so easy 🤌🏻💥🚀 🌶️